Riding-harrow



(No Model.)

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r RIDINGARROW. No. 305,529. C Y Patented Sept. 23, 1884.

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,UNirnn @rares I PETER MOUGEY, OF STERLING, OHIO.

RIDING-HARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 305,529, datedSeptember 23, 1884. Application fne Maren io, 1884. (No model.)

j and it consists of the novel construction of a harrow having a closedplatform provided With rearwardly-curved knifeteeth, in combination withan improved detachable seatstandard and inverted runners, all ashereinafter fully set forth.

I am aware that harrows constructed with a closed platform have beenheretofore used; also, that rearwardly-curved knife-teeth, a detachableseat-frame, and inverted runners are not new, and I do not claim such,broadly; but heretofore such devices have either been constructed in adifferent form, or have been used severally in connection with certainother devices not herein specified.

Tt is the object of my invention to improve and combine these severalfeatures, as hereinafter set forth, so as to provide a riding-harrow ofsimpler construction, lighter draft, and better adapted to pulverize thesoil than harrows heretofore used, and provide a better method ofattaching the seat-standard, and adapting the harrow to be used upsidedown. I attain these objects by constructing the harrow as illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a harrow embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is a'side view of one of my improved knife-teeth for the harrow;Fig. 3 is a top View of the harrow,

showing my improved method of arranging the knife-teeth in theharrow-platform.

Referring. to the drawings, B is the platform-or frame,l which is madeof plank closely tted together7 so as to present an even continuoussurface on both sides. It is provided with low inverted runners R Racrossthe top at each end of the platform 5 also one across the middle,R. These runners help to stiffen the platform and hold it together, andare especially utilized when the harrow is turned upside down upon themto haul it from place to place, serving as a sled for such purpose. Thecentral runner, R', isshorter than the end runners, and the slant whichforms the runner-point forms a support f or the seat-standard c, whichrests against 1t, and is secured in such position by the hook g, whichengages the staple h, while lateral movement of the seat-standard isprevented by the overlapping band-stop c', which engages the sides ofthe runner R. n

D is the seat or saddle, which is attached to the standard c in theusualway. By this arrangement the seat and standard c may be readilydetached from the platform to permit the harrow to beturned upside downby throwing them forward,when the hook becomes free from the staple.

A, Fig. 2, is one of the knife-teeth of the harrow. It is provided witha shank, s, to secure it to the platform. The projecting part of thetooth P is made like'a knife-blade, and has a rearwardly-curved edge, c,whereby 1t is enabled to cut through sods and clods without tearing themup or catching upon any obstructions whatsoever. These knife-teeth areset in parallel rows across the platform, but slightly diagonal with theframe, and so that the rows of teeth on. each side of the centerconverge rearwardly toward the rows on the opposite side, as shown inFig. 3, so that the teeth of each row will follow each other 1n closesuccession, and the last tooth of each r'ow be followed by the rst toothof the next adjacent row of teeth, each tooth cutting an independentfurrow, and the furrows equidlstant (about one inch) from each other.

i By my arrangement of knife-teeth thin slices are successively out fromthe clods withbe loaded to make' it heavier, when necesh,andtheinvertedrnnners R R', substantially .Io

sary. as set forth.

Having thus fully described my invention, Intestimony whereof Ihereuntoset myhand what I claim as new, and desire to secure by and seal. 5Letters Patent, is'- In a harrow, the combination, with the PETER MOUGEY[L S] closed platform B, provided with knife-teeth Witnesses: A, of thedetachable seat-standard e, pro- M. L. SMYSER,

vided With lateral stopt and hook g, the staple H. B. SWARTZ'.

